Suzuki International Europe is switching from paper to
electronic invoicing at more than 1,200 spare parts dealers to
reduce costs and improve efficiencies.
The Germany importer of Japanese cars, motorcyles and outboard
engines is following a trend set by other large organisations in
recent months such as
Lloyds TSB, logistics company
DHL, and electronic retailer
DSG International.
The complete roll out of the e-boxT services from Crossgate
Enterprise services is being carried out at a fixed cost, which
Suzuki International Europe said would enable the company to
benefit immediately from the cost savings.
The company said neither Suzuki International Europe nor its
dealers had to make large-scale investments in hardware or
software.
For Suzuki, the switch involved configuring the enterprise
resource planning system to generate invoices in portable document
format (PDF).
Dealers need only an e-mail program to notify them that an
invoice has arrived and a standard internet browser and Acrobat
Reader software to view and authenticate the documents, which are
available online 24 hours a day.
Suzuki International Europe also plans to migrate incoming
invoices to the electronic system.
